The editorial reads,

“I don’t think anyone expected us to get that far’

Following a golden performance at this year’s World Cup, GQ lionise the England captain who united a nation. Harry Kane is GQ’s Sportsman of the Year.

We may not have won it, but we won’t forget it: after all, it was a World Cup charge few could have expected, a reignited love affair with the national side absolutely no one could have predicted (and that still feels like a fever dream). But it was also something else: an introduction to the world stage, if one were needed, of one Harry Edward Kane, England’s youngest ever World Cup captain, England’s first World Cup top scorer since Gary Lineker 32 years before.

Having gone into the tournament off the back of a season with Tottenham Hotspur in which the 25-year-old scored a personal best 41 goals in 48 games, you would imagine, two weeks after the World Cup, he is currently on a well-deserved holiday – GQ grabbing some time for his Sportsman Of The Year photoshoot on a private island in the Maldives, say, just before he goes off for a swim.